Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:
1. Hands-on: a first look at Diaspora's private alpha test
The Diaspora project has launched a private alpha test of its open source social network. It is opening up its own hosted instance of Diaspora to a select group of testers, starting with people who contributed financial support when Diaspora was first getting off the ground.
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ArsTechnica2.
The Tech Brands You Can TrustEvery year PCWorld polls its knowledgeable readers to see which companies are providing the best tech support and service. The results of our latest exclusive survey of 79,000 tech aficionados reveal some welcome improvements and some familiar shortcomings.
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PCWorld3.
Black Friday in the Linux BlogosphereBlack Friday is here, and Linux bloggers have visions of video cards, Blu-ray players and KVM switches dancing in their heads.
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LinuxInsider4.
Dodecapod to offset Segway as futuristic transport
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Coding the middleware for government dataCities, states and agencies are publishing more government data online, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. Much government data is still in paper form, locked away in file cabinets, or in closed formats on obscure servers.
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Symbian Sputters Towards Open-Source IrrelevancyRemember two years ago when Nokia open-sourced the Symbian mobile operating system? The thinking was that cell phone manufacturers who depended on the Symbian OS could help keep it going.
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TechCrunch7.
What You Need to Know When Buying a Tablet ComputerThinner and lighter than a netbook, tablets easily pack into a small bag or purse. They offer super-simple browsing and e-mail reading capabilities. While they lack keyboards, they're easier to type on than a tiny smartphone.
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DARwIn-OP humanoid revealed, ready to open source your robotics program
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So... whatever happened to Google's Chrome OS?It was just about a year and a half ago that Google started talking up plans for its Chrome OS. As I recall, a number of bloggers and reporters began tolling the death knell for Windows at that time, claiming Google's "operating-system-less" OS would trump Windows 7, Windows 8 and maybe even Mac OS X.
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8 Potentially World Ending Nuclear ScaresFor more than 40 years, the two great superpowers of the world (America and the USSR) and their allies were locked in a nuclear confrontation known as the Cold War. Both sides were on a hair-trigger to launch massive nuclear strikes which would have global consequences, due to MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction).
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